2005-08-02 01:03:43山豬
Turning Point
Two month ago, I was in the US finishing my degree and waiting for graduation.
I realized my two goals before graduation, one is to go to strip club that I mentioned in the earlier article, and the other is to do skydiving once in a lifetime. Thanks for a good friend who visited me from Singapore during my graduation period jumping together with me from a tiny jet at the height of 13,000 feet in Tucson.
At the moment of the graduation ceremony, I cried while the elected convocation speaker, a Japanese-fluent Korean classmate, who is also one of my best friends and team mates in my MBA, talked about me specifically during his speech. I realized that this would probably be my last graduation ceremony since I don’t plan for further degree. I planned for a 60-day trip to east coast and Europe two days after my graduation ceremony. It’s a mess ending my two-year life in the US including closing accounts, packing stuff, farewell occasions, and finishing final reports.
A month ago, I started my day14 journey in London.
Participating an Asia party held by London Business School MBA students, I seemed to go back to my first-year MBA life but different place with different people. Extremely familiar, extremely distanced as well. I said to myself: ‘you wouldn’t belong to this group anymore; you need to step out and will step into another journey.’ There’s once my friend said to me: ‘I don’t want to work. I am afraid of working. How good it is to be a student without worrying and being responsible.’ However, I am more than glad to be a working person who contributes and gives back to families or the society. After all, one is developed for a long period of time and resources. By giving back to the society, you know you become the ones who help to develop others.
There are good and bad things happened at the same time in this trip. I called it a finding-self-trip. It’s a great transition for me from a student to a worker. I am lucky and blessed to pass through some difficulties including London Bomb, Amsterdam Strike and Paris accident. I would like to thank all these friends, Sherry in NJ, Lee in DC and NY, Lillian in NJ, Tina in NJ, Nancy in London, Wei in Germany, Min in Paris, Gwen in Nice, Ariel in Barcelona. If it were not you, I can’t make it.
5 days ago. I went to Singapore from Taiwan a week after my return from the US. Joined my first friend’s wedding, met bunches of lovely friends, and ate a lot of foods. As to the food list, I will post it later since James, Betty and I sorted them on a list. A-ha!
Today, I started my first day working in P&G. Knowing that I am going to China a week after my first day is really cool. I need to tune my mode back to the working one.
Ok, put on the oil and start the engine. May the force be with you.
Ps. The picture captures the moment right before my landing from sky diving in Tucson.
I realized my two goals before graduation, one is to go to strip club that I mentioned in the earlier article, and the other is to do skydiving once in a lifetime. Thanks for a good friend who visited me from Singapore during my graduation period jumping together with me from a tiny jet at the height of 13,000 feet in Tucson.
At the moment of the graduation ceremony, I cried while the elected convocation speaker, a Japanese-fluent Korean classmate, who is also one of my best friends and team mates in my MBA, talked about me specifically during his speech. I realized that this would probably be my last graduation ceremony since I don’t plan for further degree. I planned for a 60-day trip to east coast and Europe two days after my graduation ceremony. It’s a mess ending my two-year life in the US including closing accounts, packing stuff, farewell occasions, and finishing final reports.
A month ago, I started my day14 journey in London.
Participating an Asia party held by London Business School MBA students, I seemed to go back to my first-year MBA life but different place with different people. Extremely familiar, extremely distanced as well. I said to myself: ‘you wouldn’t belong to this group anymore; you need to step out and will step into another journey.’ There’s once my friend said to me: ‘I don’t want to work. I am afraid of working. How good it is to be a student without worrying and being responsible.’ However, I am more than glad to be a working person who contributes and gives back to families or the society. After all, one is developed for a long period of time and resources. By giving back to the society, you know you become the ones who help to develop others.
There are good and bad things happened at the same time in this trip. I called it a finding-self-trip. It’s a great transition for me from a student to a worker. I am lucky and blessed to pass through some difficulties including London Bomb, Amsterdam Strike and Paris accident. I would like to thank all these friends, Sherry in NJ, Lee in DC and NY, Lillian in NJ, Tina in NJ, Nancy in London, Wei in Germany, Min in Paris, Gwen in Nice, Ariel in Barcelona. If it were not you, I can’t make it.
5 days ago. I went to Singapore from Taiwan a week after my return from the US. Joined my first friend’s wedding, met bunches of lovely friends, and ate a lot of foods. As to the food list, I will post it later since James, Betty and I sorted them on a list. A-ha!
Today, I started my first day working in P&G. Knowing that I am going to China a week after my first day is really cool. I need to tune my mode back to the working one.
Ok, put on the oil and start the engine. May the force be with you.
Ps. The picture captures the moment right before my landing from sky diving in Tucson.